Just ahead of the new year, Wixen Music Publishing filed a $1.6 billion lawsuit against Spotify alleging non-payment of mechanical publishing royalties...Randall Wixen, head of Wixen Music Publishing (says):

“It’s a really good act. But on page 82 of that act is a clause that says if you don’t file a lawsuit against a music streaming company by Jan. 1, 2018, you lose your rights to get compensated. If that act was passed, and we hadn’t filed a suit by Jan. 1, we would have forfeited that right. It would retroactively give a free pass for a streaming service that has infringed on music rights in the past to build a service worth maybe $20 billion once it goes public."